TED HUGHES, born August 17,
1930, in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire,
was the husband of the late Sylvia
Plath by whom he had two children.
During World War II he served
with the Royal Air Force as a
ground wireless mechanic and then
studied at Cambridge, where he met
his wife, who was attending Newnham College on a Fulbright
fellowship. During a long visit to
the United States, during which
he lived in Northampton and Boston, Massachusetts, his first
book, The Hawk in the Rain, was
the winner of the First Publication
Award of the Poetry Center of the
YM-YWHA in New York City.

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